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Kaliningrad is a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Kaliningrad may also refer to:
- Kaliningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia
- Kaliningrad, name of the city of Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russia, from 1938–1996
- Kaliningrad (ship), a Russian Ropucha class landing ship
- Kaliningrad K-5, Soviet air-to-air missile
- Kaliningrad K-8, Soviet air-to-air missile
Kaliningrad (former German name: Königsberg; ; Old Prussian: ; ; ) is a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
In the Middle Ages, the locality was the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement and fort Twangste. In 1255, during the Northern Crusades, a new fortress was built on the site by the Teutonic Knights and was named Königsberg (König = "king") in honor of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who led two crusade expeditions against the pagan Old Prussians. The town was successively part of the monastic State of the Teutonic Order, enfeoffed to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, then part of Prussia and Germany (the latter until 1945). The city was heavily damaged during World War II. Its ruins were occupied by the Red Army on 9 April 1945, and what remained of the German population fled or was later removed by force. It was renamed Kaliningrad on July 4, 1946, in honor of Soviet luminary Mikhail Kalinin, who died in the previous month. In 2005 the city marked 750 years of existence as Königsberg/Kaliningrad.
According to the 2010 Census, its population was 431,902 – an increase from 430,003 recorded in the 2002 Census.
Usage examples of "kaliningrad".
Konigsberg was overrun, soon to become Kaliningrad -- politically a district of Russia but separated by the three Baltic republics.
Close to Kaliningrad was the seaside town of Yantarny -literally, Amberville.
German population of the Kaliningrad region was either dead or expelled or sent to Siberia, but since the demise of the Soviet Union, Kaliningrad had became a free port to attract prosperity, and the closest source of prosperity was.
Whatever its free port status, the Kaliningrad region was militarily sensitive due to being the most westerly redoubt of the rump of Russia.
These spectacles had been safeguarded somewhere m the Kaliningrad region throughout the Soviet annexation, in this hard steel case -- but not on behalf of covert Nazis.
As Dretzski followed Novskoyy to the security building, he took one last look at the gigantic Kaliningrad being towed out of the dock to the deep water channel beyond.
An icebreaker had to clear the way for the fleet submarine Kaliningrad to get under way, and now it proceeded at full speed under the icecap.
The Kaliningrad, so automated that a relatively few enlisted ratings were required aboard, was manned by 18 officers, 13 warrant officers and 16 enlisted men.
Acting First Officer when the second in command of the Kaliningrad took sick.
The propulsion plant of the Kaliningrad was far superior to any other in the fleet, for that matter was much more advanced than anything the Americans had, with their low-power density, water-cooled cores.
The Kaliningrad had two reactors, each cooled by highly conductive liquid sodium.
He had been with the Kaliningrad through its five years of construction, since the first beam of structural titanium had arrived from the west by railcar.
Last night Novskoyy was reported by intelligence assets to be embarked aboard the new OMEGA-class attack submarine Kaliningrad, which left Severomorsk for the Arctic yesterday, supposedly for sea trials.
As the tanks emptied, Kaliningrad grew lighter and the forces of buoyancy began to move her upward.
FS kaliningrad Captain Vlasenko opened his locker, hoping his service pistol was there.